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Quote:Ditto. The costume pieces are very nice looking, and I'd buy them outright as a Costume Bundle, but I'm not going to gamble for them and spend a variable and likely gratuitous amount of points/money/tokens on a bunch of stuff that I don't really want along the way. I got out of CCGs because that kind of system annoys me, and I avoided HeroClix (and a couple of other things that otherwise interested me, such as Navia Dratp) altogether because of it.Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Sorry, but agreed.
I am with-holding my cash monies from these things. Even though I really, really badly want those costume pieces, I am NOT supporting these damn things. End of. -
What exactly does an expression of lethal anticipation look like?
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Quote:Is that not still a part of her character?Originally Posted by Agent White
PG on the other hand... looks like she's trying to remember something
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Quote:I keep pondering Supernatural on Netflix. I tried to watch the show when it first came out, but I didn't care for it. A few seasons later I'd catch the occasional episode after Smallville and find it to be pretty entertaining, so I'm sure the show gets better but I have to work up the motivation to power through the early stuff.Originally Posted by Mr. DJ
I'm the same way...finished all of Scrubs (Season 8 was the real ending dammit!
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I ignored it for the longest time (that happens to me a lot: Friends, Scrubs, HIMYM, Big Bang Theory, Buffy...), then sometime last year I started catching the marathons of it on cable and found them quite enjoyable. The weird thing about it to me, though, is that I was already familiar with Hugh Laurie from Black Adder and A Bit of Fry & Laurie, but now whenever I see him in interviews sounding all British it makes me do a double-take.
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I don't like the art in that pic. And I don't like the bracers, boots, and hair. But I kinda like the cape with the P-shield.
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Quote:So, first, Han shoots, then Greedo dies. Or, to put it more succinctly: Han shot first.Originally Posted by GATE-keeper
Some people erroneously state that Han shot first, but that's wrong; saying Han shot first implies that Greedo shot second, but Greedo never got a shot off because he was deaders.
If that were true, Han wouldn't have had to do that weird neck jig when they changed it. Does Lucas really think he's fooling anyone?
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Quote:That result would only be 'weird' if you used it to claim that both lines were equal.Originally Posted by Pauper
You don't really even have to go to 'big infinities' to see these weird results.
Example: Draw two lines, one three times longer than the other using whatever unit you wish, in such a way that you can draw a third line to make a right triangle with the longer of your original lines as the hypotenuse. Make sense?
OK, now draw a line parallel to the third line that passes through any point on the hypotenuse that you wish. That line will pass through a specific point on the shorter of your two original lines.
Draw another line, parallel to the line you just drew, passing through a different point on the hypotenuse. That line will pass through a different specific point on the shorter of your two original lines.
If you've had middle-school level geometry, you might see where this is leading: by the Euclidian definition of parallel lines, no two lines you are drawing through a point on the hypotenuse will ever pass through the same point on the shorter of your original two lines. But this means that, for every point on the hypotenuse, there is a corresponding point on the shorter line.
And this, of course, proves that there are exactly the same number of points on both of your original lines, despite one of them being three times longer in 'absolute' terms. -
Quote:The details of the topic in question are vague to me at best. The personality and "cute"ness of the equation stand on their own without leaning on such knowledge, and thus resonate more strongly with me.Originally Posted by RadDidIt
Its strange, but I think the poem I posted was funnier. The equation is cute, the other one is topical.
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Quote:This is awesome. Reminds me of The Math Song by Darkest of the Hillside Thickets.Originally Posted by RadDidIt
I hope this is suitable, DR.Quote:
My dearest Tammy,
9x-7i > 3(3x-7u)
Looks hard, but on this special day for emotional outbursts, its important. When you solve for "i," I feel complete. Because i < 3 u.
Yours in numbers,
Ray
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Quote:It seems like absurd Wonderland Mathematics to me - which is to say I understand it conceptually AND it doesn't make sense, pragmatically speaking. And I'd say it's about on par with exploring Universal scale from micro to macro as a mental exercise.Originally Posted by Hopeling
If you have infinitely many milliliters, or wait an infinitely long time for both to finish the race, yeah, in a sense they are, although cardinality is a mathematical concept, not a physical one, thus it's not a great analogy. We're ONLY talking about what happens AT infinity here, looking at the end as you said. If you want to know what happens at the end, you look at the end, it doesn't matter what happens before the end.
But really, I fear we're getting off-topic talking about cardinality in a thread about the scale of the universe. -
Quote:It doesn't really act differently unless you ignore what's going on and just look at the end. It's like saying the tortoise is as fast as the hare because they're both at the finish line, or a milliliter is equal to a liter because they both filled up a swimming pool.Originally Posted by Hopeling
If you're comparing a finite number of them, sure, but that isn't what we're talking about when we talk about the cardinality of the entire, infinitely-large set.
This really isn't an isolated result - there are quite a lot of things that behave a certain way at every finite point, and act completely different in the limit at infinity. -
Quote:Assuming forks are the integers and knives are the square: when you have 1 to 3 forks you only have 1 knife, when you have 4 to 8 forks you only have 2 knives, when you have 25 forks you only have 5 knives. The more forks you have the wider the disparity between forks and knives becomes. Thus, as the number expands infinitely you'll have infinitely fewer knives.Originally Posted by Hopeling
Well, "larger" is hard to compare for things that are infinitely large. We can't usefully count how many there are - in both cases the answer is "infinitely many". So we compare them in a way that doesn't require counting them - instead, we pair them up. Imagine you're setting a large table - you know you need a lot of forks and knives, and you need the same number of each, but counting that many of them would take a long time. Instead, you can start putting them in pairs: if you run out of forks, you had more knives; if you run out of knives, you had more forks. If every knife ends up paired with a fork, you must have had the same amount of each. We can say the same when we try to pair up the integers with the perfect squares, or for an even less intuitive example, pairing the integers with the rationals.
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Quote:I'd assume that within identical finite boundaries greater than 1 that the former would be larger than the latter and that this would hold true to infinity.Originally Posted by Pauper
A lot of the weirdness of physics comes from the weirdness of math.
For instance, you might be asked which is larger -- the set of all positive integers {1,2,3,4,5,...} or the set of all perfect squares {1,4,9,16,25,...}? Just looking at the first few members of each set and seeing, for instance, that 3 is a member of the first set but not a member of the second set, you'd probably assume that the set of all positive integers is larger than the set of all perfect squares. -
Put me down as one of the people who have been looking forward to this movie for quite some time. The whole concept of Nazis from the moon invading earth in Space Zeppelins is just plain awesome in my book.
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Size matters not...
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Quote:That looks awesome. I think I'd fashion a fillo-type pastry turtle shell to go over the back, though.Originally Posted by VoodooGirl
Another item for the menu: Teenaged Mutant Bacon Turtles
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Quote:I've never heard it explained quite that way before, but that seems to fit my experiences perfectly.Originally Posted by Ironik
Introvert and Extravert are merely where you get your energy. Extraverts feel energized among others; these are the ones who like to go clubbing and other social events. Introverts, on the other hand, derive their energy from within, so solitude is the key to their happiness. I go to any social event and I find it draining. Groups of people exhaust me. They don't let you just observe; if you don't interact, they think you're arrogant and aloof. And that's the same sort of name-calling we see on the forums when introverts express an opinion different from the extraverts.
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Regeneration with toggle IH.
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Quote:Of the listed items, the only thing I find potentially significant are the costume pieces. Of those, the major pieces are available through other means now.Originally Posted by TonyV
There are significant shinies gated behind teaming. Badges, accolade powers, costume pieces, temporary powers, gobs of story lines, etc.
Badges don't do anything on their own.
I've yet to see an Accolade power that made me specifically want to perform the Tasks to get it.
The temporary nature of temporary powers is enough to make me not want to jump through any hoops to get them.
And story lines become immaterial in most MMO teaming situations I've experienced. There's little time to absorb them before the hive mind juggernaut trundles inexorably onward. -
I'm an introvert but I enjoy teaming. I much prefer to passively acquire a team, though. I like to set my search flag to Looking For Any/Missions/etc. and wait for a tell/invite. Or to put myself in the LFG queue and hope that there are other people using it the way it really ought to be used so that I fall into a team.
I also post a fair amount here. The internet provides a social buffer that allows me to interact on an impersonal enough level to socialise far more comfortably than real life allows, and thus I'm a bit less avoidant. -
Quote:So, the more cats you have to herd, the simpler the path to the litterbox has to be...Originally Posted by Necrotron_RO
If more complex is what is being designed for a league of 24 strangers to team together for, no thank you. Simple and straightforward works best for that large of a league, in my opinion based upon the countless Keyes I have been on and the general percentage of the league who actually understands how that specific iTrial works.
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Quote:I'd be all for that.Originally Posted by MisterD
You know..I am getting a little tied of leveling 1-50 in this game. Let's just have an option to BUY a token for 50 levels from the market! Surely we can't have people doing things they don't enjoy, or are forced too.
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Quote:And then that guy got killed by a javelin (or pilum) after being tripped up by a bola and entangled in a cast net whilst trying to melee someone with a boomerang.Originally Posted by Twigman
Sparticus' trainer wouldn't be convinced by your arguement.
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Quote:That was kinda my reaction as well. When a friend of mine pointed it out excitedly my reply was 'I don't think I'd quite enjoy this movie, unless the main characters realise that they've become part of the problem and off themselves at the end'.Originally Posted by Veritech
I dig catharsis as much as the next guy, but there's just something about this that irks me. This is supposed to be funny, but it just isn't to me. Maybe its just the trailer, but im just not digging the vibe of the film so far. That and it reminds me a lot of Falling Down which i dig a lot more.
Still, ill give this a watch, just not in theaters.
I enjoy some good comeuppance, but death isn't necessarily good comeuppance. The trailer particularly lost me with the parking jerk, as I recall.